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Halles d’Essai Ingénieurs

The university's engineering test hall, where structures and materials are tested at something like real scale, on the avenue named after Belval's steelworkers.

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The engineering test hall on the university campus, at 30 Avenue des Sidérurgistes.

Not every kind of science fits on a laboratory bench. Structures have to be loaded until they deform, materials pushed until they fail, and equipment used that is closer in scale to a workshop than to a lab. That is what a test hall is for: a large clear-span space with the height and the lifting capacity to work at something like real size.

It was built as part of the Fonds Belval programme that produced the campus, alongside the workshops and the north test hall.

The address is the thing. A hundred years ago the people on this ground were finding out what steel could take by making it. Now the building where that question is asked stands on the avenue named after them.

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On in the next seven days, within five minutes on foot of here.

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  2. On now, until Fri 6 NovUniversité à l’essai: try first-year classes at the University of LuxembourgUniversity of Luxembourg · 5 min on foot
  3. On now, until 16:00AISTER Hackathon: Code for HeritageMaison des Sciences Humaines · 5 min on foot
  4. Tue 3 Nov · 18:30Café Saga Quiz NightCafé Saga · 5 min on foot

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Halles d’Essai Ingénieurs
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Within five minutes on foot:

  1. ENAD – École Nationale pour Adultes3 min
  2. Food Café3 min
  3. Food Factory3 min
  4. Maison du Savoir3 min
  5. Restena Foundation3 min
  6. Socle du Haut Fourneau C3 min
  7. Belval Student Lounge – University of Luxembourg4 min
  8. BIL Esch-Belval4 min

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